Sergt. Edgar
Johnston, engineer, repaired bridge at Malolos, Philippines, while the Spanish
bullets were flying all about him.

Theodore
Haines, of Catskill, died suddenly after being injured.

Col. Omar V.
Sage, of Catskill, made warden of house of refuge, Randall’s Island.

Capt. Henry
Nicholls, commander of the monotor Monadnock, U. S. N., Admiral Dewey’s
squadron, died at Manila. Born in Athens in 1845. Body shipped to United States.

Tannersville
railroad opened from Otis Junction.

Smallpox in
Athens brick yard.

Geo. W.
Holdridge brought the old St. Luke’s church for $2700.

Geo. W.
Holdridge commenced work on Rowena school at Palenville, a $40,000 structure.

Melvin Wynkoop
drowned at Coxsackie.

William
Bigelow, Crawford Owens, William Henzel and Antonio de Batiste crushed to death
in cave-in of brick kiln at Catskill.

Jas. Busbee
committed suicide at West Camp.

Lewis Hadden,
war veteran, died at Big Hollow, aged 65 years.

Dominic
Crommis drowned at New Baltimore.

Howard Cohn
killed by accidental discharge of gun while hunting at South Cairo.

Sixteen
Separate Company participated in Dewey parade at New York, Lieut, Searles
commanding,37,000 men in
line.All the vessels in parade
also.

Walter ____,
killed in electric light station at Catskill.

Mrs. Judson
Wilcox, aged 95 years, fell and fractured his hip. Accident resulted in her
death. She was for over 50 year a member of St. Luke’s church.

Murder at
Kiskatom—Elizabeth Baer, an old woman, cut the throat of Catherine Wolvin, a
helpless invalid.She than took
Parisgreen.Dr. Lamont saved her
life.Tried and convicted of murder
in the second degree.

Socialists
polled 300 votes A. C. Fancher for supervisor of Catskill.

Good Templar
convention at Tannersville.

Fire in
Conklin store, Catskill.

Store house of
Catskill & New YorkSteamboat
company destroyed by fire.

Hon.
John A. Griswold died at his home on William street, Catskill, aged 79 years.

Justice
Sewell presided at March term of Supreme Court.

High
water on March 1st did great damage in Catskill.

A pine
tree cut on the Pratt farm at Oak Hill, measured 18 feet at the base, 65 feet to
the first limb, 175 feet in height and rings indicated age of 235 years.

Albert
H. Ford kill at Athens by a falling derrick.

Catskill
public library opened.

Thomas
E. Ferrier died at Catskill, aged 81 years.Former supervisor and county treasurer.

Joseph
Keeler died from chloroform accidentally spilled upon his bed during his
sickness.He was an old resident of
Catskill.

Potter Palmer,
uncle of Mrs. H. L. Boughton, of Catskill, died at Chicago, and remains were
interred at Potters Hollow, his birthplace.He was born in 1826, conducted store at Durham, owned 95 houses in
Chicago at time of great fire in 1870, all destroyed. He was worth $25,000,000.

Bishop Burke
confirmed class of 150 at St. Patrick’s
church at Catskill.

10,000 people
burned to death in volcano eruption at St. Pierre, Mantinique, greatest disaster
of modern times.

Catskill Shale
Brick plant in hands of receiver.

Geo. W.
Holdridge given contract to build Catskill Y. M. C. A.

Esquire Cowles
died suddenly at Durham, aged about 76 years.

Judge
Sanderson died sitting in his chair, at the home of his daughter in Catskill.
County judge in 1882 and in 1888, defeating M. B. Mattice each time.

Lionell
R. Long tried for murder of Wardwell Van Bergen, shot at Catskill Point on
steamboat.E. Palmer for people, G.
H. Jones for defendant.Acquitted.

Samuel Austin,
of Catskill, found dead in creek by Neiland brothers, fisherman.

William
Johnston committed suicide.

Boiler
exploded at Holcomb’s saw mill in Palenville, Great wreck but no one killed.

Catskill
Y. M. C. A. dedicated on April first.

New
windows presented to St. Luke’s church.

Mrs. Van
Cott conductedrevival services at
Ashland and Westerlo.

Jeremiah
Vosburg, of Coxsackie, found dead in bed, aged 87 years.

Ambrose
Greene, of Urlton, aged 90 years, found dead in bed.

Charles
Garrighan, of Coxsackie, found dead in bed.

Albany
and Catskill Trolley Company organized.

Charles
E. Haines committed suicide at Cairo.

John
Richards committed suicide at Purling.

Jacob Fromers’
horse and wagon fell into the clove Canyon, six feet and escaped serious injury.

William Ellis,
war veteran, aged 87 years, found dead in bed at South Cairo.

Kingston
district conference of the Methodist church held in Catskill.

Catskill town
bridge carried away. Michael Moran, captain of barge and William Dwyer drowned.
Patsey Williams, Fred Bigelow and Jack McNary carried down with the structure,
but escaped alive. The flood did great damaged throughout the county. New span
cost $10,000. Ben Plusch build temporary structure.

Windham
village six feet under water.

Marshall
Day, West Athens, dropped dead, aged 55 years.

Benjamin
Brenn, of Catskill, committed suicide in cistern.

Thomas
Hall drowned at Four Mile Point.

James
Little, of New Baltimore, sent to Dannemora for 20 years for rape.

Fred Van
Dyke unearthed skeleton of Indian on the Milton Palmer farm, near the Indian
fording place. Skeleton was in sitting posture.

Frank Krom, of
Purling shot when rabbit stepped on trigger of his gun which he had laid on the
ground.

Hunters with
blood hounds killed a bear at Hunter.

Durham
creamery burned.Loss $4000.

George A. Van
Valkenburgh died at Lexington, aged 65 years.

John R. Hicks,
of Catskill, found dead in bed, aged 79 years.

Henry F.
Olmstead died suddenly, aged 89 years.

Caroline
Palmer, died at Greenville from cancer, aged 62 years.

P. Clinton
Lewis, formerly of Catskill, died at Boston, under an operation.

Susan Nelson
Fitchett, formerly of Catskill, died at Coxsackie, aged 92 years.

George
Roraback, of Westkill, died suddenly, aged 85 years.

Joan
Christopher Klepser, of Catskill, died at age of 81 years.

Harvey
Delamater, of Catskill, found dead in bed.

Romantuds
Lake, war veteran, died at Greenville.

Lawrence
Benton, war veteran, died at Durham.

Remarkable
death record—there were eighteen persons buried in Locust cemetery near Norton
Hill during the past year.There
was one over 100 years old at her death, three between 90 and 100, two between
80 and 90, four between 75 and 80, two between 60 and 70, two between 50 and 60,
one between 40 and50, two between
30 and 40, and one, the youngest, 23 years.

Emerson, Ford,
of Durham, James Hughes, of Stuyvesant Falls, and Eugene Wayne, of Catskill,
appointed Equalization Board for Greene County.

FOUR
DROWNED—Mary C. Bedell, Jennie L. Bedell, of New York, Sarah Brown, of
Brooklyn, and Margaret McKay, of Coxsackie, drowned at Hudson when the Powers
ran into the Young America, the boat being sunk.

Henry Van
Valkenburgh, of Coxsackie, was killed at that place by cars. He was driving a
manure spreader.

Howard
Boughton, one of Catskill foremost citizens died as he was about to retire for
the night. Born at Windham 1849, came to Catskill in 1865. Was in business with
L. R. Doty. Very successful business man.

Waldo Schmidt
found dead in the lots near Summit Hill House, Catskill. He had been hunting,
and shot himself by accident.

Capt. Geo. R.
Benter, Formerly of Catskill, died in New York.

Julius Colwick,
of Alsen, was buried in a bin of cement at that place and killed.

George
Trumpbour, aged 69 years, died at Palenville.

Sally Davis,
aged 92 years, died at Oak Hill.

Chronology
1906

William Ford, of Cairo, enlisted and went to Phillipines.

Nelson S.
Bloom died from stroke of paralysis at Oak Hill.

Oscar Greene
dropped dead at Coxsackie.

Hart House at
Catskill Point destroyed by fire.

Bolivar
Newbury, one of the early manufacturers of power pressed for printing, died at
Coxsackie, at the age of 82 years.

A crazy man
called on the Rev. I. H. Hoag, at Leeds, and announced that God had sent him to
kill him.The pastor side stepped
him and the sheriff got the quarry.

Ninety-first
annual meeting of Greene County Bible Society at Catskill.

Lucius E.
Tuttle and Mrs. Tuttle were shot July 4th as the closing event of a
celebration. The shot was fired by Italians on Water street, and they were never
apprehended. Mr. Tuttle died instantly and Mrs. Tuttle finally recovered. The
bullet passed through her body.

Company Espent 10 day sin camp at Fleischmans.

The upper town
bridge at Catskill blown up by dynamite.

Hiram Bogardus,
former school commissioner of county, died at Coxsackie, of gangrene.He was 74 years of age.

Mrs. Edgar
Poole founddead in her home on
Broome street, at Coxsackie.

Clayton Bump,
a Catskill veteran of the Spanish war committed suicide at Albany, using
gas and chloroform.

HendrickHudson steamer, of the Day Line, made first trip on August 23rd.

Greene county
gave Hughes for governor plurality of 500. W. C. Brady elected member of
assembly; E. A. Gifford, district attorney; J. C. Tallmadge, county judge; Ira
T. Tolley, sup’t of county house, and Hardy Stewart, sheriff.

William H.
Denton and Laura Denton, old people, burned to death in a fire that destroyed
their residence near Cairo.

James Van
Tran, a civil war veteran, died at Prattsville, from gangrene in his foot.He lived four years after the disease set in and one by one he cut off
his toes with a pocket knife.

The Rev. C. G.
Hazard, of Catskill, attended the Hague Tribunal.

Frank Norton
drowned in the creek at Catskill.

Monroe
Truesdell, of Lexington, youngest soldier in federal army, being fourteen when
he enlisted. He was a member of Warrens and Sheridan’s staff.Wounded at Winchester.In
lumber business at East Jewett.

William G.
Plank, Grand Army veteran, of Cairo, passed away, aged 70 years.

Chauncey
Dixon, of Catskill, rounded out 100 years. War veteran. Mrs. Dixon died at the
age of 103.

Kate Dunlap,
of Windham, tried to deal in liquors at that place and it cost her $200 fine,
and not having the money she went to jail.

Tenth annual
convention of the American Zionists held at Tannersville.

Ribbel Hess
drowned in the river at Catskill.

Robert Scott,
of Catskill, a Grand Army veteran, died at Cairo, at the age of 87 years.

Jacob
Makeley,
a Cairo farmer, committed suicide bytaking
laudanum.

Walter Mott,
of Catskill, died of strangulated hernia at his home in that place, aged 76
years.

The new
concrete bridge at Catskill opened with a celebration and fireworks in the
evening.

Barn of Burton
Van Derzee at Coxsackie destroyed by fire, the building being struck by
lightning.

Cooper shop of
Howard Carey and dwelling of Edward Dixson at West Coxsackie burned.

Store of
Nicholas D. Onifrio at Athens destroyed by fire.

Major Leroy
Palmer, a Catskill boy, returned to the Philippines.

The council
tree of the Mohican Indians, located on the Casper Hallenbeck farm at Coxsackie,
struck by lightning and destroyed.It
was under this tree that the Indians met to sell land to Jan Bronk, Martee
Gerisee Van Bergen and Jan Jacobse Hallenbeck.

William
Curtis, of Kiskatom, died from gas poisoning while at work in a well at his
place.

Forty-ninth
annual convention of the Greene County Sunday School Association held at
Catskill.

Store of C. I.
Collier, at Coxsackie, partially destroyed by fire.

The Rev. John
B. Thompson, former pastor of the Catskill Reformed Church, died at Trenton,
aged 77 years.

The Greene
County Fireman’s 19th annual convention was held at Coxsackie.

Hannah Pierce
died at Kiskatom at the age of 95 years.

Ford H. Clegg,
of Leeds, died as the result of injuries when he jumped out of a window at his
home, during his sleep.

Annual meeting
of the Greene County Bible Society held at the Reformed church in Catskill.

The first
horseless wagon said tohave been
made by Peter Van Hoesen, of Leeds, who lost all his money trying to perfect the
machine.

Morris Guards
encamped at Catskill.

Thomas
Whitlock, of Brooklyn, in his 92nd year visits Catskill.A friend of General Lafayette, Past master Odd Fellows over 53 years.

Order of
Forresters organized at Catskill. Angelo Sission first chief.

Levi M.
Francis, a veteran of the civil war, suicide at his home in Catskill, taking
strychnine.

St.
Patrick’s church at Athens dedicated.Bishop
Burke officiated.

Thomas Bell,
of Catskill, died suddenly at the age of 81 years.

Edward Smith
dropped dead at his home in Athens.

Mrs. Jennie
Olm, of Catskill gets verdict of $9000 for death of her husband who was killed
by the cars near Hudson.

James B.
Mitchell, war veteranand 13 months
in Andersonville prison, fell down stairs and died a few hours later.

Justice Fitts
presided over December term of Supreme Court.

Maggie Myers,
aged 60 year, indicted for keeping house of ill repute. Sixty days in prison.

E. S. Haydropped dead in the office of the Catskill Recorder.

County budget
for the year $82,206.

Jeremiah Dean
died at New Baltimore. He was 76 years of age.Was for three years on a whale vessel.In California during the gold excitement.He was an uncle of Supervisor J. H. Deane, of Catskill.

Chronology1908

Aaron Wynkoop, of Cairo, drowned in the creek at South
Cairo, attempting to crossthe
stream while intoxicated.

The new school
building on the West Side in Catskill completed by Contractor Geo. W. Holdridge,
at a cost of about $30,000.

Rene Rowlinson,
of Windham, burned to death at the Smith House in Catskill, his clothing
catching fire in some unknown manner.

Charles A.
Post, of Catskill, elected chairman of Board of Supervisors: George G. Van
Valkenburgh, clerk.

The barn of
Newton Spoor, at Coxsackie, valued a t $3,000, destroyed by fire.

Residence of
Peter Fitchett, near Coxsackie, destroyed by fire.

Supervisor
Franklin Finch, one of the leading citizens of Ashland, passed away at his home
after he return from a meeting of the Board of Supervisors.He was 63 years of age.

Mary E.
Garrison found dead in her home at Indian Ridge.

Mrs. Catherine
Goodwin, aged 82 years, died at Palenville.

Philip Freese,
died at Purling, at the age of 80 years.

Tannersville
and Cairo want county seat located at these places.

Judge
Clearwater presided at February term of Supreme Court.

Wilbur Brown
died at Catskill, aged 58 years.

Tannersville
offers to raise $100,000 to have county buildings located there.

Trustee
Charles A. Elliott offers site for court house in Catskill.

Frederick S.
Lyons, a prominent Catskillian died at the age of 84 years.Forty years sup’t of First Baptist Sunday school.

Greene county
Board of Supervisors met at Catskill and decided to locate building there and to
spend $15,000 for new court house.The
vote to locate in Catskill was 11 to 3. It was also decided to locate the
buildings on Bridge and Main streets, and Messrs. Post, Krieger, Dibble and
Chase, of the Board of Supervisors were appointed a committee to secure plans,
etc.

Mass meeting
of Citizens of Catskill held at court house in the matter of new buildings.New sites purposed.

Estimated that
site of lands will cost $47,000 on Bridge and Main streets.

Emory A. Chase
re-elected president of Bar Association.

Burton
Whitbeck shot and killed his wife, Maude B. Whitbeck in front of their home at
West Coxsackie and then committed suicide in the barn of his uncle, John Curtin.

The remains of
Fred Brandt were taken from the Catskill creek below the bridge. Hehad been missing for six weeks.

Emanuel J.
Hill, former resident of Catskill, and steamboat man, died in Brooklyn at the
age of 84 years.

Philip Spencer
fell from the dock at the pumping station at Catskill and was drowned.

Celebration of
Old Home Week in Catskill, October 4-7. Great parades, carnival, fireworks,
athletic sports on race track, and ball game following day.Hon. Wm. Fiero made the principal address. Catskill was thronged with
guests all the week.

Michael
Doherty found dead in his home at Coxsackie.

Governor
Hughes given a rousing welcome in Catskill.

The committee
passed a resolution of thanks to Chairman J. P. Philip for his services and zeal
which made Old Home Week a great success.

District
Attorney Pierre S. Jennings had 30 cases before grand jury.Jas. Cartan, of Catskill, held for attempt of poison his wife.Sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.

Henry Limbrick,
Catskill oldest resident, died, aged 93 years.

Elmer
Overbaugh, of Palenville, went after pitch to make gum and did not return.His body was found in the creek.

Set of
resolution presented to Bank President J. P. Philip by Old Home Week committee.
Addresses made by Rev. Clark Wright, William E. Thorpe, Village President
Charles A. Elliott and Senator Bloodgood.

Shops of the
Catskill Mountain railroad at the Point destroyed by fire.

Catskill
Cement Company’s plant damaged to the extent of $20,000 by fire.

Justice
Cochrane presided over November term of Supreme Court.

Wilson for
president carried Greene county by 932 votes.Mackey for sheriff, 2960.

Attorney F. H.
Osborn won remarkable case in Supreme Court in which it was shown like and
Argosy story that defendant had set fire to his boat for the purpose of getting
insurance money.He was against
Howard Chipp, of Albany, and what looked like a hopeless case.He let the prosecution prove too much for their own welfare.

Charles
McMenamy, of Catskill, died of cancer.

Charlotte
Westland, of Tannersville, committed suicide by jumping from the Manhattan
bridge in New York.

Stores of Lysle Nelson and Stephen Hitchcock at New
Baltimore destroyed by fire.

Adelbert E.
Dunham, of Spruceton, cutting off the butt of a tree that had blown down was
crushed to death underneath the stump when the main part had been cut off and
the stump snapped back into the hole in the ground.

Gilbert
Greene, of Hunter, suffering from cancer, hid in a cave and then tookcarbolic acid, causing his death.

Charles Smith,
of Rouse & Smith, passed away after short illness at his home in Catskill.

Charles A.
Beach, president C. M. R. R., died suddenly of apoplexy.

Ste___ Vining,
an eccentric Windham teamster, found dead by the highway.

William H.
Henderson, former trustee of Catskill, died of blood poisoning following an
injury to this little finger.

George H. Bump
found dead in bed at his home in Catskill.

Cassius
Simpson, of South Cairo, killed by a fall from his wagon at Leeds.

Ice house and
coal sheds of Raymond Smith at Catskill destroyed by fire.Loss $15,000.

Judge Chester
presided at February term of Supreme Court.

Barn and
stables of William Perry at West Coxsackie destroyed by fire.

J. A. Betts
and W. W. Rider made trip to Panama.

The two sons
of Andrew Rosenburgh of Coxsackie, were drowned while out fishing on Sunday with
their father.

Athens
Knitting Company goes bankrupt.

Truman I.
Smith committed suicide at his home in Catskill.

John T. Heath
passes away at his home at Catskill, aged 70 years.

Zobles T.
Cater, of Catskill, plunged into the Catskill creek and saved the life of little
Jimmie Smith.

Assemblyman
Patrie introduces bill to pave West Main street, Catskill, which passed and____ signed by the governor.Paving
laid by the Catskill Construction Company.

Nathan
Richards, of South Cairo, killed by the cars at Athens.

Alexander
Wilbur, prominent Catskillian, died suddenly at the age of 69 years.

$10,000 fire
on dock at Coxsackie.

Frederick t.
Beach died suddenly at his home in Catskill.

Ashes of
George Howland, of Athens, scattered at sea.He died at Genoa. Worth $1,000,000.

Patsey Wiweke
killed in accident at the Cementon crossing.

Hudson Valley
Fireman’s Convention held at Catskill. There were in the parade 60 fire
companies and brass bands.

Famous old
Simmons house in Jefferson destroyed by fire.

Boarding house
ofF. W. Cole near Coxsackie
destroyed by fire.

Big fire on
Main street, Catskill, destroying Horton Brothers’ sale stables, Person’s
shop, barns of Brandow, Horton, Yanonnie, Hay and Linzey, Fontnell’s house.
Tynan’s shop, M. E. church shed, on July 10th.On the Sunday morning following the Boston store was
destroyed and the building ofAmos
Post in which was the Smith store and Daily Mail office, and the Church store
were guttedby fire. On Monday the
barn of George Bates on Water street was burned. Loss $200,000.

Worthy Tolley,
of Athens, shot and killed Leroy Hallenbeck. Tried and found guilty for murder
in the first degree.Sentenced to
be electrocuted.Sentence appealed.

James Reardon
killed in automobile accident in Windham.

Mrs. Charles
Crohl killed in automobile accident near Catskill.

Tony Canape, a
Catskill child, burned to death while playing with matches.

George Mason
dropped dead in Catskill.

George Hawver,
of Lawrenceville, cut by buzz saw so badly that he died a few days later.

Smith House
badly damaged by fire.

Chronology
1915 to July first

Great revival in Catskill.

Howard Wilcox
died suddenly of heart disease.

Peter Welsh
died suddenly at his home in Catskill

John D. Smith,
former postmaster and founder of Daily Mail, died suddenly at this home in
Catskill.

Omar Hotaling,
of New Baltimore, murdered at Highland.

Catskill
Mountain Ry. depot at Haines Falls destroyed by fire.

Residence of
T. J. Nolte at Cairo destroyed by fire.Loss
$7000.

John Black
sentenced to Dannemora prison for the murder of Pardy Shoemaker at Lexington.

Receivers
appointed for Catskill Mt. Ry.

Ruth Hammer
and Ida Beach, of Catskill, murdered by Henry Long, of Albany, a gardener in the
employ of Henry Hansen.He shot the
girls while they were out gathering wild flowers and then committed suicide.